An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

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Description An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Weaknesses CWE-125
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T10:30:42.113Z

Reserved: 2026-04-08T09:59:59.342Z

Link: CVE-2026-40015

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.363

Modified: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.363

Link: CVE-2026-40015

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